A.B.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

接尾辞

-ab

1. antibody

派生語

アナグラム

• -ba-, B. A., B.A., BA, Ba, ba, ba'

動詞

A/B (third-person singular simple present A/Bs, present participle A/Bing, simple past and past participle A/Bed)

1. To compare two pairs of headphones or earphones by switching between one and the other.
   • 2019 December 9, “My (waaay too long) review of the Stax SR-009S”, in Stax Headphones‎, archived from the original on 2020-09-27:

     Any queries about how it compares to LCD-4, Utopia, 1266/Diana, Susvara et cetera would have to be answered by someone with more experience A-Bing those headphones.

   • 2022 August 7, “Comparing the HD600 and the HD580: In Pursuit of the Truth”, in audiodiscourse.com‎, archived from the original on 2022-08-19:

     I briefly tried to use the same set of pads with both however that didn't work out very well from a practical standpoint. Too much time was lost between swapping pads for A/Bing.

参考

• A/B testing

アナグラム

• -ba-, B. A., B.A., BA, Ba, ba, ba'

語源

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Is the halal snack pack sense an initialism or other form of shortening?”)

発音

• IPA: /ˌeɪˈbiː/
• ハイフネーション: A‧B
• 韻: -eɪbi

固有名詞

AB

1. Abbreviation of Alberta: a province of Canada.

   Coordinate terms: BC, MB, NB, NL, NS, NT, NU, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT

2. Initialism of Artium baccalaureus.
3. Initialism of Aryan Brotherhood, a US white supremacist, neo-Nazi prison gang and crime syndicate.

   Synonym: 12

4. Initialism of Anheuser-Busch.
   • 2019 July 25, Paul R. La Monica, “Good news for the king of beer: People are drinking more”, in CNN Business‎:

     Shares of AB InBev (BUD) soared nearly 6% after the Budweiser, Bud Light and Stella Artois owner reported solid sales and earnings.

名詞

AB (countable and uncountable, plural ABs)

1. Initialism of able seaman or able-bodied seaman.
   • Section 2(1), Merchant Shipping (Seafarers) Ordinance (Cap. 478)

     In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires— A.B. means an able-bodied seaman […]

2. Initialism of afterburner.
3. Initialism of aid to the blind.
4. (military, aviation) Initialism of airbase.
5. (organic chemistry) Abbreviation of alkylbenzene.

   Hyponym: LAB

6. (medicine) Initialism of antibody.
7. Initialism of artificial breeding.
8. (law, politics) Initialism of assembly bill.
   • 2025 April 1, FOX26 News Staff, “Both transgender athlete bills fail in California”, in FOX26 News‎:

     AB-89 would have required that participation in sex-segregated California school programs, athletic teams, and facility use be based on a pupil’s sex, not gender identity.

9. A blood type of the ABO system that has both blood antigens and may receive all blood types, and donate to AB.

   Coordinate terms: A, B, O, A+, B+, AB+, O+, A-, B-, AB-, O-

   1. (countable) A person with this blood type.
10. (ABDL) Initialism of adult baby.
    • 2002 October 3, Dee Johnson, “Dead Again” (at 23:18–23:27 from the start), in Richard Thorpe, director, ER, season 9, episode 2, spoken by Michael Gallant (Sharif Atkins):

      Well, he appears to be an AB. You know, an adult baby. It's a fetish in which the baby is taken care of in every way by a mommy or a daddy.

11. Initialism of asymmetric bars.
12. (Australia, Adelaide, countable) A halal snack pack consisting of doner meat topped with chips, tomato sauce, chilli sauce, barbecue sauce, and garlic sauce.

関連する語

形容詞

AB (not comparable)

1. Initialism of airborne.
2. Initialism of antiballistic.
3. (baseball) Initialism of at bat.

参考

参照

• “AB”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “AB”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

アナグラム

• -ba-, B. A., B.A., BA, Ba, ba, ba'

別の表記

• a- (found if the root word started with m, p, or v)
• abs- (found if the root word started with c or t)

接頭辞

ab-

1. (no longer productive) From.

   ‎ab- + ‎sorb → ‎absorb

2. (no longer productive) Away from; outside of.

   ‎ab- + ‎normal → ‎abnormal

   ‎ab- + ‎axial → ‎abaxial

同意語

• (away from): out-, off-, apo-, de-, away, off

派生語

語源 2

Abbreviation of absolute.

接頭辞

ab-

1. (physics) A unit of electromagnetic charge in the centimeter-gram-second system: the abcoulomb.

参照

• “ab-”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• -ba-, B. A., B.A., BA, Ba, ba, ba'

語源

From the preposition ab (“from, away from”).

接頭辞

ab-

1. from, away, away from
2. off
3. at a distance
4. completely, thoroughly
5. absence of
6. more remote
7. removed by three generations

   abamita (“great-great-grandaunt”)

   abavia (“great-great-grandmother”)

   abavunculus (“great-great-granduncle”)

   abavus (“great-great-grandfather”)

   abmātertera (“great-great-grandaunt”)

   abnepōs (“great-great-grandson”)

   abneptis (“great-great-granddaughter”)

   absocer (“great-great-grandfather-in-law”)

使用する際の注意点

• Before b, m, sp and v, the prefix becomes ā-.
• Before c and t, the prefix becomes abs-.
• Before f, the prefix becomes au-.
• Before p, the prefix becomes as- (but with some exceptions).

派生語